The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-08-20
pOwDERIy ON GAMBLERS IN FOOD.
a General Boycott Recommended Of all Al
tinlaA Cnrnarah.

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a General Boycott Recommended Of all Ar
ticles Cornered.
General Master Workman Powderly ha.
issued the following circular to the Knights
of Labor on gambling corners in gram
meat, coffee, etc..
This country has within a brief period OF
time witnessed the failure of gigantic
scheme to rob the people under the shadow
OF law, or rather because the law is silent
as to the methods by which gambling in the
necessaries of life should be punished.
True, the rogues who attempted to corner
wheat and coffee were not entirely success
full; they sustained some of the losses which
they had hoped TO inhict on the country
The panic on the coffee market did not
cause such rush TO lay in large supplies as
was anticipated. Although millions of dol
lars changed hands during the corner not
pound or an ounce of coffee changed own
ers. Coffee not yet ripe in the field was
sold, resolG and gambled in at the Ex-
changes in New York and Chicago. Coffee
that sold for twenty-five cents one day went
up to thirty cents in twenty-four hours, mot
because the article was of better quality
or any scarcer than it was the day before
not because the owners of the coffee de-
manded higher price for it, but because
the stock gamblers had willed it. and their
will for the time was law.
A GENERAL BOYCOTT.
The lesson taught our members by the
experience of the past three weeks is to
keep their eyes open and to keep them
turned toward the Produce Exchanges of
Chicago, New York and other large cities,
and the moment the grain OF produce gam
bier stocks the cards and announces that
there is scarcity in certain article of
food-the price must go up to consequence
every member should resolve, and iesolve |
out loud, that until the unhallowed hand
of the speculator has been removed from |
the control of the article iIHguestion not a |
pound nor an ounce more than can be |
avoided will be purchased. This may. be |
in the light of boycott notice. |
That is exactly what intend it for, and |
had the power visited in me to make the
order imperative would order every men,
Der, so far as'in him lies, the power to
place an eternal boycott on every grain and
stock gambler in the United States and
Canada.
LOSSES AND GAINS OF GAMBLERS.
1t is estimated that the losses of those di-
'ectly interested in the wheat deal will
each S5,500,000. The losses to the coffee
,hieves will exceed $4,0OO,00O.
Two gangs of thieves were interested in
manipulating the coffee market. One of
hem realized S5,00O,00O on the steal and
hen quit in time to save it, Their pals,
he other coffee dealers, more greedy, kept
IN until their scheme exploded; and taking
right they stopped short at Il heavy loss.
The men who cleared the S., ,0O0,00 delib-
'rately robbed every man.
Ia comparison to these men Dick Turpin
md Sixteen String Jack were honest men.
sven Jesse James had more merciful way
# robbing people. Jesse James was sum-
narily dealt WITH and if Dick Tuapin or
my of the famous highwaymen of old could
ome back and attempt to resume business
t the old stand and in the old way they
would be sent TO the penitentiary or hanged
Inless they ''diyvied' up with some man,
II men, of political influence.
The men who raised the price of coffee ,
nd tried TO take advantage of the necessi- |
les OF the people so unwhipped of justice.
Is IL not time to appoint commission to
inquire into this refined method of robbing
he people, so that a law can be passed TO /
unish those who gamble in food, while s
thers starye for want of it?
Is it not high time for the consumers and '
roducers of this land to inquire why swind-
srs, dealers in futures and men who under e
TODD the villainous art of manipulating 4
readstutfs should levy tribute on the bone
nd sinew of the land to satisfy their greed :
nd ayarice?
The money changers of old were scourged
om the temple by the Son of God. They il
Iere Innocent, lamb-like creatures and in n
apable of doing any mischief when COM -,
ared with our latter day gamblers. \
PUNISHMENT MERITED.
If the doings of old time money changers G
leIited the application of the seourge and y
.sh, | feel safe in making the assertion b
lat if Christ should visit Wall street, New
ork, he would find greater rogues than he /
rove from the Temple of old. Along with
leir being scourged, each rascal of them t,
lould be chained to his place on the floor il
the Exchange with loaf of bread and a
ell-done steak suspended within smelling !;
stance of his nose, SO that the dispensers I
poverty would get a taste of the hunger
ley would bring to the homes of the poor. y
The existence of coffee exchanges, grain p
Nchanges, coal exchanges and produce ex-
ianges shows the necessity for the organ !.
alton of two more exehanges--a farmers s
Echange and a laborers' exchange-and S
lese two exchanges should cooperate with v
.ch other.
All kinds of job work at this Office